1. Family: Austronesian
  2. Subfamily: Western Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Genus: Northern Philippines

Agta (Central)

WALS coordinates: 17° 58′ 12.00″ N, 121° 49′ 48.00″ E

spoken in Philippines

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Agta
Routledge:
  • Agta
Other:
  • Agta,
  • Central Agta,
  • Central Cagayan
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural word
Definite Articles Definite affix
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative suffix
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Negative Morphemes Negative auxiliary verb
Polar Questions Question particle
Lexicon
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5
Number of Basic Colour Categories 6-6.5
Green and Blue Green/blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow